The International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (ICOR) salutes the workers, students and other working people in France who are struggling against the Macron-Philippe government's anti-worker and anti-people policies. Their strike, their struggles are gaining international attention and support!

At the heart of their struggle is resistance against the government's attack on railway workers! The Macron government wants to attack their status, which they obtained and defended throughout many strikes and struggles.

The government wants to «transform» and «modernize» France?

This so-called «reform» for the SNCF (the national railway service) would have disastrous consequences: jobs would be destroyed or made more insecure, working conditions and conditions of struggle would be made more difficult, workforces would be divided, unions would be weakened.

The reform would also have a very negative impact on the natural environment as thousands of kilometers of rail lines would be closed down and there would be more car traffic. Rural areas would be further isolated. Would that really be «modern» France?

What is going on in France is happening everywhere – in countries in Europe and in the whole world. Entire public sectors are being privatized and transformed into markets for big international corporations. Practically everywhere the international monopolies seek to invest their immense profits in the transport system, hospitals, old age homes, schools, etc.

The logic of maximum profit rules in the whole of society – that is Macron's world. And when he bombs Syria, together with Trump and May, it is imperialist foreign policy.

In other countries, too, workers are fighting to defend and improve their working and living conditions, sometimes against the same international monopolies.

Our experience shows: We can be successful with a sustained and broad general strike supported by large parts of the population!

Withdrawal of the government's plans for the SNCF!

To win would be a victory for all other workers. It would be a great encouragement for people all over the world. The ICOR will publish your struggle worldwide and organize the solidarity.

For the international working-class offensive against international finance capital!

Workers of all countries, unite!

Workers of all countries and oppressed peoples, unite!

The ICOR pledges to make the various struggles known and to coordinate them in Europe. ICOR already supported the struggle of the French workers against the new labor law in 2016. Its more than 50 organizations support each other in party building.

ICOR writes in its Statute: «The masses of people in the world do not want to sink into capitalist barbarism! The antihuman politics of international finance capital challenges the revolutionary drive of humanity toward a society without exploitation, oppression, misery, environmental destruction and war and which offers a perspective for the youth.» That is socialism.

Long live proletarian internationalism!

Signatories (as of 29 th of April 2018, further signatories possible):